Chapter «The metropolis of Great Britain»: Londra nelle lettere e nel dizionario di Giuseppe Baretti

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IAMARTINO, GIOVANNI
Language
Italian
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Abstract
Giuseppe Baretti was the most famous master of Romance languages in eighteenth-century London, where he spent two long periods, from 1751 to 1760, and from 1766 until his death in 1789. Given his temperament, social attitude, education and interests, as well as the native-like proficiency in English he soon acquired there, he became part of London’s cultural elite and an appreciated linguistic and cultural mediator between Britain and Italy. The present study focuses on the way Baretti described and commented on London – its cityscape, institutions, and inhabitants – in his published letters and the bilingual English-Italian and Italian-English dictionary he compiled.
URI
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96656
Keywords
Giuseppe Baretti; London; letter-writing; bilingual lexicography; Anglo-Italian relations
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0448-4.10
ISBN
9791221504484, 9791221504484
Publisher
Firenze University Press
Publisher website
https://www.fupress.com/
Publication date and place
Florence, 2024
Series
Biblioteca di storia, 48
Classification
Linguistics
Translation and interpretation
General and world history
Pages
11
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/